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15.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)


DeepSilence News
News about DeepSilence - SOMS
On the homepage you can now subscribe to a newsletter that sends the latest news regarding the game project.

For the moment is the forum inactive. As soon as it works again we'll inform you via the newsletter. Besides that, the email address of the leader Sylvio Kurze changed to Sylvio.K@gmx.de. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Inutilis News / Timo Kloss (email)


Developer kit: Inga on the shelves
The Inga developer kit for graphic adventures is from now on available in the shops. This system is already used for the adventure "Ermentrud" that is in development right now and can shine with the following features:

  • Graphics: 640x480 pixel in 256 colors (CyberGraphX required)
  • Voice and sound output via AHI possible
  • Music from audio CD possible
  • Easy usage without classical verbs list
  • Easy to use developer tools
  • Script language for flexible story design
The package contains three installation disks and a comprehensive printed manual.

System requirements:
  • CPU: 020 (060 recommended)
  • Graphics card with CyberGraphX or compatible (P96)
  • AmigaOS 3.0 (3.5 recommended)
  • Hard disk
  • Also successfully tested on UAE with P96!
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Card reader/writer news
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today, slightly delayed, I have now tested my card reader/writer with Sony memory sticks. These run as expected very good and I can access them like a hard disk.

Some users say that the device would be too expensive. These users have to consider that they'll own a universal key for all mobile digital devices. These are among others digital video cams (especially those of Sony), digital photo cameras (all cameras with card slot) and MP3 players (with card slot). Additionally, I can imagine that in conjunction with IBM microdrives these drives may be used for data exchange between laptops and Amiga. (Because of a lack of money I wasn't able to test this yet).

A user asked whether compact flash cards would work, too. This can be answered clearly with "YES".

Boot ability of memory cards:
Not tested yet but theoretically possible as I use mount lists to access the memory cards. A RDB block cannot be written on the cards as they have always to be formatted in photo cameras or MP3 players. This is absolutely necessary because of compatibility reasons though you may probably be able to format these memory cards with an Amiga file system, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001



H&P: AmigaOS XL for x86
Under the title link you can find the promised details regarding AmigaOS XL, two new Amiga emulators for x86 computers that are offered in a double pack. Here's an exerpt:

AMIthlon - The fastest Amiga ever

Insert the CD-ROM, switch on your PC and boot into the fastest Amiga ever. There is no complicated and boring installation. The development team of Harald Frank (VMC) and Bernd Meyer even implemented native support for nVidia and Matrox graphics cards providing maximum graphics performance. Opening windows on the Workbench is so fast that you can barely watch it anymore.

With AMIthlon you can even use your old Amiga hard-disk in your PC. Simply connect it to your PC, start AMIthlon and that's it.

AmigaXL for QNX - The most functional Amiga ever

The host operating system for AmigaXL is QNX 6.1. It is included in the package. QNX has many similarities with the AmigaOS. It has a micro kernel and the drivers are separate processes. Like devices and handlers in AmigaOS these can be dynamically started and stopped. This makes the system extremely light weight and resource efficient.

Features that QNX provides can directly be used within the emulated Amiga. This includes network functionality and multimedia features. QNX applications like the web browser OperaŽ can be started directly from the AmigaOS screen. One can say both operating systems work together seamlessly.

System requirements:

Athlon-, Duron, Pentium-, Celeron-CPU with 500 MHz or more. AmigaOS XL supports usual graphic, sound and network cards. A complete list is available on our homepage amigaxl.haage-partner.de or www.amithlon.com.

Availability: The delivery will start about 41st week. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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13.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


SCSI card reader for Amiga, too (update)
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Two days ago I recieved hardware from Michrotech, which is able to read and write SmartMedia 8-128MByt, Flashpath cards 8-256MByte, and PCMCIA type I-III cards. By now I've done tests with SmartMedia and Flashpath cards, which worked terrific with the Amiga. On Friday I will test Sony memory sticks, too.

As far as I can see now also Amiga users can use mobile MP3 players with the Amiga (the Amiga can write to the cards!). This magic device is called "ICS-47-BH" and is to be a CFA, SM, PC card reader with a SCSI-II interface.

The cards are accessed using a mountlist, as like with harddisks, at the speed of 4MByt/sec (read and write). I will create a website with more detailed information including pictures.

Update 14.09.2001:
Changed title. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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12.Sep.2001
Marco Miljak (Horst Hug, via E-Mail) (ANF)


SmartBoy with AmigaOS isn
Earlier this year announced the company Thendic GmbH the SmartBoy, a new handheld terminal that should be equipped with AmigaDE. Since then nothing had happened and the company was silent. Today I got (finally) the answer from Horst Hug, who's working for Thendic, via email in which he wrote about the SmartBoy as follows:

  • The SmartBoy is indeed in development.
  • Pictures of the device can be accessed from the company's website (title link) under "Entwickler".
  • In the B2B version (Business-to-Business) the SmartBoy will be equipped with Windows CE 3.0.
  • In the B2C version (Business-to-Consumer) the SmartBoy may be equipped with the AmigaDE, at the moment we are testing the available software, at the end of the year a decision will be made.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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